CRUSHERS,
POUNDERS, GRINDERS, GRATERS and
ORGANIC FOOD TOO!
This is a day with a difference - we live the food chain from soil to table and discover the vital elements of organic food production
- Visit fascinating Watermills in Scenic Settings, discovering just why waterpower was vital part of our heritage.
- Explore secret spaces in the County of Cumbria and the English Lake District National Park, places you may never find alone.
- Sample Organically grown cuisine in unusual locations, not for years has food ever tasted so superior.
Watermills are
an essential part of the Cumbrian countryside.
Once streams and rivers powered industry. Imposing wheels straddled
the fast flowing watercourses and turned the wheels of impressive machinery
into action - snuff, wooden bobbins, cotton, paper and corn.
Our tour takes you to the locations of a variety of mills in scenic locations while we join in the celebration of food produced organically in Cumbria's beautiful Eden Valley and the English Lake District National Park.
Visit
 The Watermill, Little Salkeld |
The Village Bakery, Melmerby, where the absolute beginner, occasional baker, the committed enthusiast and culinary professional join together at the start of a baking journey to prove that Bread Matters.
The Five Acre Smallholding attached to The Village Bakery, discovering aspects of practical organic food production on a working smallholding - apples, hens, pigs, cows, herbs, vegetables and composting.
The Watermill, Little Salkeld, a traditional 18th Century Corn Mill powered by water with a reputation for producing a wide range of Organic and Biodynamic flours milled from English wheat grown to the Soil Association Symbol Standard.
We will:
- Take the opportunity to see some fascinating machinery in action,
- Have an understanding of a working mill,
- Appreciate the flour that is used to produce the Village Bakery's wonderful bread.
Long Meg and her Daughters, the sixth largest of all stone circles measuring some 360 feet by 305 feet, just one mile to the northeast.
The River Eden in a beautiful tranquil valley seldom visited.
Armathwaite, in a secluded wooded hollow. A few houses, a bridge, a chapel containing stained glass windows made by the William Morris Arts and Crafts Workshop, a Castle and a Woollen Mill.
Caldbeck. Priests Mill, from 1702 to 1933 was a stone-grinding
corn mill. In 1986 an award winning restoration of the mill was completed
and the 14-foot diameter waterwheel is in full working order - there
are an interesting selection of shops to browse through and a picnic
area alongside the river.
Explore the pretty village, the church and the graveyard - John Peel and the Beauty of Buttermere lie buried here - visit the village green to see the wild Fell Ponies that roam here, take a walk to The Howk, a spectacular waterfall, and the ruins of a Bobbin Mill.
Ullswater, one of the most beautiful of the Lakes in the National Park.
Acorn Bank Garden
and Watermill, Temple Sowerby - a 17th Century Garden surrounded
by ancient oaks and high enclosing walls. Sheltered orchards containing
Traditional fruit trees and the famous herb garden have the largest
collection of medicinal and culinary plants in the North of England.
Sample
Safe, wholesome food, from a healthy soil kept fertile by sustainable methods, tastes better than you ever imagined.
A delicious full fried breakfast with free-range eggs, home cured bacon, Cumberland sausage, organically grown mushrooms and tomatoes and those wonderful real breads baked in a wood-fired oven. There is an extensive menu from Pain au Chocolat to Rasberry Porridge, and, of course, a Vegetarian Full Fried breakfast too.
A Picnic Lunch with more of The Village Bakery produce to tempt you.
Ale at Hesket Newmarket Brewery in the heart of the Lake District National Park, a traditional English pub with a difference - it produces it's own beer "Blencathra Bitter" and "Great Cockup Porter" to name but a two - you can take a brewery tour and taste too.
